Wartime Activities of the County Home Demonstration Council
The County Home Demonstration Council reports wartime services by clubs in Houston County. Members organized cancer control efforts, quilts for Red Cross, and clothing drives, aided recreation centers, fire prevention, and U.S. Trade Aid work. Postwar planning includes studying household, farm, and community needs for a changing world.
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Patsy
Weleve
Egent
Bas
Section
U. S
Red Cross
Avon
Houston County
Fama
Benbers
Childrens Crime
Dothan
Dupree Home de Nonstrata Club
U.S
Dettan
Grain Sorghum Is A Promising Crop In Alabama
County agents report 4,580 farmers planted 14,340 acres of grain sorghums in 1940s Alabama following demonstrations in 1943. Hogan is the leading variety with Plansman and Martins Combine also noted. Yields 30 to 80 bushels per acre common, best yields from June plant. Grazing stalks after combine. system includes oats, nitrogen topdressing, crimson clover or crimson clover and rye for winter grazing.
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Lowery Extension Agronomist County
Alabama
Hogan
Plansman
Three Farm Bureau Meetings Scheduled
Three in a series of county Farm Bureau meetings have been scheduled this week and others are expected the later part of the week, H R Knowles said. The meetings will be at Cottonwood Tuesday night Ardilla School Wednesday and Kinsey Thursday to discuss bureau activities and elect 1945 directors in each beat. More than 1 400 members are listed in the Houston County Farm Bureau the highest since organization grass. The grain sorghums will not replace corn or oats but may fit into the grain production program with these crops if trials show success it could become a major grain crop in Alabama communities along with corn and small grains.
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Farm Bureau
H.R. Knowles
Houston County Farm Bureau
Cottonwood
Ardilla
Kinsey
Alabama
State Farmers Again Face Tight Squeeze On Needed Supplies
Alabama farmers face a tight season for production supplies. Gasoline and nails remain adequate, but lumber, copper wire, and insecticides are in short supply. Mercury items like transformers and pyrethrum are constrained. farmers are urged to conserve and reuse materials where possible to prevent crop losses.
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Auburn
Alabama
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
AAA
Tractors Adapted to Terraced Land Use
Extension engineer J B Wilson explains how channel type terraces suit tractor farming. Plowing should begin in the terrace channel, with rows laid along the channel edge and mid channel, and cultivation kept along the rows. Harvest equipment can operate on rows, while some farmers prefer fields with channel terraces for mechanized work.
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J. B. Wilson
Alabama
Subjects for Club Meetings Reported by Home Agent
Miss Fran Mallette announces ten monthly topics for demonstration clubs including clothing foods and nutrition food preservation child care and family living home management house furnishings poultry gardening dairying and landscaping in the Yame Demonstration Program.
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Fran Mallette
Machinery Shortage Urges Farm Repairs and Maintenance
CM Lang County agent urges farmers to inspect and repair every usable old machine to keep work going as farm machinery supply remains tight. Emphasis on Operation Care and making do with existing equipment to sustain farm operations.
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CM Lang County Agent Tools
Machinery production and military output on schedule
The article discusses ongoing machinery production and military output, noting tractors and general machinery must stay on schedule. It mentions Selective Service physical exams, the mobilization of over 400,000 men, and limited travel in ordinary spaces as part of the wartime efforts.
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Asicuer
Lasl
Caicepion
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Ho,ton County
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CM Ling
Muss Mery Lou Thompson
Adov
Gemanstrabion
Fran Melone
National Defense
Uncle Sam
Everlox
Dothan Roofing & Heating Company
WARD
New Spring
America
Dothan Guano Co
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